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We study 6d (1, 0) superconformal theories. These have a natural lightlike conformal Killing vector, the Dirac current. We perform a conformal dimensional reduction along the Dirac current down to five-dimensions in such a way that we always preserve at least two real supercharges.
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This work was supported in part by NRF Grant RS-2023-00208011.
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Gustavsson, A. Lightlike conformal reduction of 6d (1, 0) theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 102 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)102
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